Human pluripotent-stem-cell-derived organoids for drug discovery and evaluation

JJ Vandana, C Manrique, LA Lacko, S Chen - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) and three-dimensional organoids have ushered in a
new era for disease modeling and drug discovery. Over the past decade, significant …

Beyond fluidity: the role of lipid unsaturation in membrane function

T Harayama, B Antonny - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2023 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The number of double bonds in the acyl chains of membrane lipids varies tremendously at
all scales of life, from the organism level to the subcellular level, where differences in lipid …

Intraocular liver spheroids for non-invasive high-resolution in vivo monitoring of liver cell function

F Lazzeri-Barcelo, N Oliva-Vilarnau, M Baniol… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Longitudinal monitoring of liver function in vivo is hindered by the lack of high-resolution non-
invasive imaging techniques. Using the anterior chamber of the mouse eye as a …

Mapping of mitogen and metabolic sensitivity in organoids defines requirements for human hepatocyte growth

D Hendriks, B Artegiani, T Margaritis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Mechanisms underlying human hepatocyte growth in development and regeneration are
incompletely understood. In vitro, human fetal hepatocytes (FH) can be robustly grown as …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced 3D imaging and organoid bioprinting for biomedical research and therapeutic applications

S Maharjan, C Ma, B Singh, H Kang, G Orive… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2024 - Elsevier
Organoid cultures offer a valuable platform for studying organ-level biology, allowing for a
closer mimicry of human physiology compared to traditional two-dimensional cell culture …

Organoid models of fibrolamellar carcinoma mutations reveal hepatocyte transdifferentiation through cooperative BAP1 and PRKAR2A loss

L Rüland, F Andreatta, S Massalini… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC) is a lethal primary liver cancer, affecting young patients in
absence of chronic liver disease. Molecular understanding of FLC tumorigenesis is limited …

The fatty liver disease–causing protein PNPLA3-I148M alters lipid droplet–Golgi dynamics

DJ Sherman, L Liu, JL Mamrosh, J Xie… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, recently renamed metabolic dysfunction-associated
steatotic liver disease (MASLD), is a progressive metabolic disorder that begins with …

Organoids: development and applications in disease models, drug discovery, precision medicine, and regenerative medicine

Q Yao, S Cheng, Q Pan, J Yu, G Cao, L Li, H Cao - MedComm, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Organoids are miniature, highly accurate representations of organs that capture the structure
and unique functions of specific organs. Although the field of organoids has experienced …

Comparison of wild-type and high-risk PNPLA3 variants in a human biomimetic liver microphysiology system for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver …

M Xia, M Varmazyad, I Pla-Palacín… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a worldwide health
epidemic with a global occurrence of approximately 30%. The pathogenesis of MASLD is a …

NAFLD-related HCC: focus on the latest relevant preclinical models

J Fang, S Celton-Morizur, C Desdouets - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a spectrum of disease ranging
from simple steatosis (NAFL) to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which can progress to …